NOTORIOUS OFFENDERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4294, 24 December 1874, Page 3

NOTORIOUS OFFENDERS.

THE ARREST OF SULLIVAN. It is now certain that the rumor of Sullivan’s arrest is true, says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph, and the New Zealand murderer is positively in the hands of the authorities. At first the report was not credited, on account of the description of him in tire Home papers having only recently been received in tire colonies, and it seemed that it was impossible for him to have returned to Australia. A reference to dates, however, shows that from the period of his disappearance in London till the present time enough has elapsed for a voyage from England. Sullivan was arrested at Wedderburu, where ire formerly resided, and is now awaiting the next sitting of the local Bench there, where he will be brought up under the Influx of Criminals Prevention Act, 18 Viet., No. 3, 1854, under which he is liable to imprisonment for three years. Tire Wedderburn correspondent of the Bendigo Advertiser gives tire following particulars : —“ This important capture was made by Senior-constable Colvin and Mouuted-constable Killeu, at noon, at a house in which his late wife lives in this township. I say ‘ late,’ because she was married about three years since to a man resident here. It appears that Sullivan arrived in this township about 10 o’clock on the previous evening, and spent the night in the house in which he was taken. Shortly after his arrest and removal to the lock-up, the trooper was despatched to Inglewood to telegraph to the Chief Commissioner the important duty they had performed. Sullivan was arrested under the authority conferred by the Criminal Influx Prevention Statute, passed some years back to prevent the colony being flooded by a felon population. Sullivan says ho came from England by ship to Sydney, thence by steamer to Melbourne, from the latter place to Inglewood by coach, and then walked up to Wedderburn. The most absurd stories are afloat about him, as is usual in such cases. At present it is only necessary to state that the police await instructions, and that he will be brought up before this Bench and formally remanded.” THE ARREST OP O’PERRALL. The authorities iu New Caledonia, the Melbourne Daily Telegraph writes, were loath to act for the Colonial Government on the strength of the extradition treaty unless they were prepaid for any trouble to which they might be put, and consequently the action of the old rigime at Noumea'previous to the arrival there of Admiral Bibout, after the escape of Rochefort, made it almost hopeless to expect that through their agency O’Feirall would be arrested. Owing to the protection he received from Tudamhourg, the head of the native police iu the island, he was kept so well posted in all that was going on as to be able to elude the vigilance of those who were on the alert for his capture. He at length, however, succeeded in leaving the island and reaching Brisbane, when he was at once recognised by several people. A detective being despatched to Queensland, arrived there just alter O’Ferrall had left for Singapore by the Torres Strait steamer Legislator on the 11th November. A telegram was then sent to Melbourne, and the Government immediately communicated with the authorities in Singapore, the telegram reaching home in two hours and forty minutes from the time it was sent. This telegram was signed by His Excellency the Governor, so that full authority might be given for any proceedings taken by the Singapore officials. All arrangements were made for the arrest of O’Ferrall on landing, and he is now awaiting the arrival of Detective O’Callaghan, who has already started on his way to bring him back to Melbourne. It is conjectured* owing to the slowness of the route by Torres Strait, that O’Ferrall will not reach Melbourne for a couple of months. ■ , .